FastSaying

If last spring Clarksville had hedged some of its gas requirements for the winter when prices were relatively low as other gas systems did, local gas rates would have had some stability and would never have climbed as high as they reached.


Mark McCutchen

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

If last spring, Clarksville had hedged some of its gas requirements for the winter when prices were ...
MARK MCCUTCHEN Clarksville did not change its contract, and I've never known why. Even without amending their entir...
MARK MCCUTCHEN Frankly, we believe natural gas prices would have dropped more this winter, had it not been for $60+...
CATHERINE ELDER Last year when gas prices reached over $3 a gallon because of Katrina, people stopped driving. It co...
ART KINSMAN The last couple of weeks when gas prices got up to $3 a gallon, we had a lot of people come in and a...
CARLOS GONZALEZ We're on track to record high gas prices this winter,
STEVE REYNOLDS Some districts have already started school, and also the record-high gas prices ... have sort of aff...
CYNTHIA HARRIS Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fire...
MICHAEL MCCAUL Our actions today demonstrate our commitment to high safety standards. New England is facing a winte...
JOSEPH KELLIHER High gas prices don't benefit (either customers or) us. When gas prices get real high, historically ...
DOUG HILL Consumers have been understandably frustrated when they see gas prices jump as much as 50 cents a ga...
BILL MITCHELL Insurance has doubled, tripled and in some cases quadrupled for adult day centers facilities, as gas...
KAREN CRIPPS Senator, if your name was John 6-Pack instead of John Forbes Kerry, and you had to gas up your racin...
BILL WELD What they found were pollutants such as suspended solids, as well as traces of oil, gas, copper and ...
FRANK MATELJIAN After a summer of high demand for fuel, gas prices have reached a level that forces many motorists t...
DAVID PARSONS This deregulation frenzy was predicated on low gas prices, and when gas prices go up it does not wor...
JANEE BRIESEMEISTER But the retail prices are following the prices the stations pay for gas right up, ... Gas stations a...
DAVID KEITH The wholesale cost of gas on average was up nearly 42 cents per gallon. In some areas as high as 60 ...
BILL WALLJASPER Last year was a prosperous year for the group, with strong results underpinned by increased producti...
HELGE LUND We think we've seen the last of those effects, as natural gas and nitrogen prices have now returned ...
MICHAEL BENNETT The gas situation is a concern. But we'll meet our obligations. If the gas prices remain high, as I ...
JOE ASHER In this state, we have never had a gas shortage, ever! Even during the Opec embargo we never had a g...
BILL GREEN Gas prices are way too high. What I make cutting grass, I turn right around and spend on gas. (Gas) ...
MALCOLM SMITH I'm trying to get the word out about high gas prices, ... Honk 4 lower gas prices.
MIKE HOLT Even though it was destined that he would have gas trouble that day, his prayer changed it all and i...
DR HITESH C SHETH We've had much debate here about the holiday season, ... Higher gas prices have mostly taken more mo...
JAY MCINTOSH As soon as the gas prices jump, then people are in here looking at the hybrids. If prices drop a lit...
BILL SPENCER With the winter to summer transition, there's no air mattress below the high wire as far as surplus ...
ANGELA VEITCH Prices are high, there is no incentive to hold [gas] back. If you have a gallon of gas, you want to ...
BILL BUSH We're still fortunate to have low gas prices compared to the rest of the world,
TED LAWSON There's a huge volume of gas shale left in this country. These gas prices are going to stay around f...
CHARLES MANKIN You've had not only a steady rise in actual oil and gas prices, but you have had a steady rise in th...
GEOFF KIEBURTZ In a year of record high gas prices, we grew in-store sales. This goes to prove the theory that cust...
GREG PARKER I won't stand for a gas supplier leaning on a local station to hike prices, ... Consumers and busine...
ROY COOPER What assurance do we have that the gas companies would not raise their prices?
BARBARA BUCKLEY The bottom line: we have lost a significant share of our natural gas supply, and imports cannot offs...
JOSEPH KELLIHER The city of Calera has absorbed the increase of gas prices to help keep costs low for its citizens,
JOE PHILLIPS Warmer than expected weather in key Canadian and United States heating regions has resulted in a dec...
LINO LUISON Record-high U.S. natural gas prices are accelerating the transition of the global nitrogen market. N...
MIKE RAHM It's clear that there's a concern about very high gas prices. As gas prices started escalating in Ju...
DENNIS JACOBE Based on the present trends, the natural gas prices this winter is expected to be significantly high...
NICK STAVROPOULOS In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more ...
GARY MILLER Fracking has been a real technological change that has caused great innovation in our business, and ...
LYNN GOOD I joke that you give up low gas prices for Lent.
TOM KLOZA As we have seen with oil and gas, the supply side impairment itself automatically puts upward pressu...
ANTHONY SANTOMERO We have seen record levels for natural gas prices. It would have been impossible to predict that cru...
BRYAN BRADSHAW Entrepreneurs are not as optimistic as they were earlier in the year, which is an indication our eco...
GREGG THOMPSON A lot of things came together and it did work out well for us. The weather has been very kind. The g...
BOB GREEN The self-image of many contemporary sportswriters seems to depend on maintaining that were it not fo...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE While energy costs still remain high, the warmer than usual weather, which has brought natural gas p...
HANK LINGINFELTER Historically, rising gas prices have not had an impact on travelers to Hilton Head Island.
CHARLIE CLARK I have repeated my opinion on natural gas more than once. It is unacceptable for a transitional econ...
ARSENIY YATSENYUK We think the gas prices have been a little high, so when we saw it for $2.99 here, we whipped in.
BILL JORDAN They all say something about gas, and when the house gas was like that, they'd really talk about it ...
MIKE COHEN It would take 200 000 years for gas to travel the last leg of its one-way journey.
KAMBIZ FATHI Mr. Eaton either doesn't know what he's talking about, he's being deceptive, or a combination of bot...
MARK MCCUTCHEN Certain traders in gas and kerosene have tried to increase fuel prices.... The prices of liquefied g...
GEORGY ARVELADZE We don't know if that's going to cause some people to change their minds. Historically when gas pric...
CAROL THORP Today Ukraine consumes its own natural gas from underground facilities as well as the natural gas fr...
IVAN PLACHKOV It's been a difficult year. Consumers have had a lot of distractions from new electronics to gas pri...
HARVEY DONDERO We think gas prices had something to do with it.
CANDACE SMITH We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece ...
SUZE ORMAN The hurricanes and the gas prices have hurt us,
JOYCE ROGERS I'm just like everybody else. I'm tired of paying high gas prices at the pump. … This is a way to g...
JEFF HARRIS Some analysts predict that we're at the peak of this winter's gas prices now.
FRED HORNE People have got to cool it. People have to not think it's the last gallon of gas they are going to g...
DON BOWERS The notion that drilling for natural gas can solve the winter heating problem is a misconception. We...
LISA SPEER Despite the fact that gasoline prices have obviously fallen dramatically from where they peaked afte...
AL HUBBARD We've had a good crowd. People are grabbing the deals. But talking to our consumers we have to note ...
GUS WHITCOMB The last two quarters have not been pretty. Gas prices are taking huge chunks out of wallets, leavin...
JAMES CHESSEN Our heavy industries are feeling this acutely this winter as tightness in supplies hit gas prices. T...
MALCOLM WICKS A mild winter has allowed the U.S. to avoid much higher energy prices, particularly for natural gas ...
MARSHALL VEST The jump in retail gas prices is partly due to the seasonal production switch from winter- to summer...
ROSE ROUGEAU Now, I don't expect our government to guarantee us low natural-gas prices. I do expect that our gove...
DAN DIMICCO I have some real grievances on this issue, ... We have pushed for years to get a natural gas pipelin...
TOM HARKIN We have a number of new products rolling out. Some of them are contingent on what happens to natural...
JOEL STAFF I know quickly whether a guy is boyfriend material. If I can have a good time doing absolutely nothi...
ALYSON HANNIGAN People pump gas and then they go in the store and pick up some things and pay for them, and they for...
JOE WILLIAMS We must see how much of that offshore gas gets back up and how cold the winter is. It's going to be ...
TINA VITAL Natural gas prices will be bad as well, we shouldn't expect prices to go back down significantly.
AGBELI AMEKO The average person is feeling the squeeze from high gas prices,
ADRIENNE WARREN Prices are high, but without those price increases we would not have seen the 20 percent decrease in...
MARK HAYES The Canadian dollar has been supported by a lot of positives this year as prices of oil, gas and gol...
ANDREW BUSCH Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas product...
AUBREY MCCLENDON Oil and natural gas prices, as well as heating oil costs, are much higher than they were a year ago,...
ED MARAN In the next few months, there's no upside. And this winter, we're going to feel it more noticeably a...
MARK ZANDI One thing we did to remedy the high prices, we bought these Scions, which are better on gas,
JAMES REDFIELD I think gas prices around here are pretty bad, and they affect you to the point of compromise. If it...
JENNIFER LEE If gas prices go up, the consumer is going to be a little tighter than they were.
ROBERT JOHNSON People have gotten used to the fact that gas prices come and go. If energy prices turn around, the i...
BOB BRUSCA There's a consensus in the market that winter is over and there's a lot of gas around. We may have m...
BRUNO STANZIALE Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark remind...
JUDY BIGGERT We went up on rates, but as gas is increasing, I don't think it's doing any good, ... ... We can't s...
ANTHONY DANIELS Most of (Chevron's) earnings miss was in the upstream and was caused by weak U.S. oil and gas volume...
CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON The cafeteria crew worked their tails off for us. They didn't have any electricity, but they had gas...
GLENN DAVIS Gas prices have a significant impact on the consumer psyche,
KEN PERKINS We need a healthy oil business in order to move to a healthy gas business. We view oil and gas as on...
DAREN BEAUDO Gas prices are too high. Something should be done about it.
DENVER GARRISON I think House races are most often about local and pocketbook issues and gas prices are definitely a...
CARL FORTI As we look ahead, we see increasing opportunities for Duke in natural gas - not just for producing e...
LYNN GOOD

More Mark McCutchen

Clarksville has hedged small amounts in recent months. They do know about hedging, they just haven't...
MARK MCCUTCHEN Clarksville did not change its contract, and I've never known why. Even without amending their entir...
MARK MCCUTCHEN Mr. Eaton either doesn't know what he's talking about, he's being deceptive, or a combination of bot...
MARK MCCUTCHEN If last spring, Clarksville had hedged some of its gas requirements for the winter when prices were ...
MARK MCCUTCHEN It felt very good to be part of that. To get a hit and an RBI, it just let me know I can handle this...
ANDREW MCCUTCHEN The umpire was kind of in my way. I should have told him to scoot over.
ANDREW MCCUTCHEN That's the best part of all. Just knowing that my performance had something to do with it and that t...
ANDREW MCCUTCHEN An internal breakthrough is a burden, an external one is a blessing.
MARK I'm a city boy. I grew up in a big city, in Birmingham, and I want to write about a city. It'...
MARK BILLINGHAM Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
MARK TWAIN I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always ...
MARK SHRIVER My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
MARK TWAIN Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
MARK TWAIN It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure tha...
MARK TWAIN We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.
MARK SKOUSEN The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country - including Flori...
MARK FOLEY The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
MARK TWAIN India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India ...
MARK TWAIN Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
MARK TWAIN I never let schooling interfere with my education.
MARK TWAIN Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
MARK TWAIN Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
MARK TWAIN The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed rig...
MARK TWAIN There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
MARK TWAIN In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
MARK TWAIN Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here firs...
MARK TWAIN But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one...
MARK TWAIN The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
MARK TWAIN The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
MARK TWAIN Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of ti...
MARK TWAIN It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
MARK TWAIN The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
MARK TWAIN The lack of money is the root of all evil.
MARK TWAIN Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
MARK TWAIN When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity - everything was anonymous or pseudony...
MARK ZUCKERBERG Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
MARK TWAIN Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
MARK TWAIN Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.
MARK TWAIN Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
MARK TWAIN My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But mos...
MARK WARNER There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
MARK TWAIN Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
MARK TWAIN Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside...
MARK TWAIN Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
MARK TWAIN The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
MARK TWAIN Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
MARK TWAIN I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
MARK TWAIN The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
MARK TWAIN All generalizations are false, including this one.
MARK TWAIN 'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
MARK TWAIN I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day.
MARK ZUCKERBERG The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a ba...
MARK TWAIN The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
MARK TWAIN Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
MARK TWAIN I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
MARK TWAIN There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I deci...
MARK VONNEGUT There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fan...
MARK ZANDI Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we sp...
MARK PAGEL I made my name and reputation DJing in hip-hop clubs in New York. 'Celebrity DJ' is a term t...
MARK RONSON Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until tradit...
MARK FRAUENFELDER Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
MARK TWAIN I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't.
MARK GATISS Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is ...
MARK MCKINNON If I owned half of that dog, I would shoot my half.
MARK TWAIN I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.
MARK ZUCKERBERG Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other desce...
MARK HOPKINS Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it...
MARK HAMILL What? No one wants my bouquet! Somebody better pick it up! Somebody better pick up my bouquet!
MARK MCKINNEY To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.
MARK EDWARDS What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed ...
MARK TWAIN When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. B...
MARK TWAIN When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victorymu...
MARK TWAIN The teacher reminded us that Romes liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly...
MARK TWAIN By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfec...
MARK TWAIN So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.
MARK TWAIN The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes...
MARK TWAIN We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in itand stop there; lest w...
MARK TWAIN The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large mattertis the diff...
MARK TWAIN Say the report is exaggerated.
MARK TWAIN A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will ...
MARK TWAIN To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.
MARK TWAIN I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than ...
MARK TWAIN A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; t...
MARK TWAIN Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the st...
MARK TWAIN Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred mi...
MARK TWAIN Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to...
MARK TWAIN We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then ...
MARK TWAIN Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
MARK TWAIN All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people...
MARK TWAIN Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find...
MARK TWAIN Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood...
MARK TWAIN As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.
MARK TWAIN I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshol...
MARK TWAIN Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than...
MARK TWAIN The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without burst...
MARK TWAIN When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
MARK TWAIN All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
MARK TWAIN The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do wh...
MARK TWAIN To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand ...
MARK TWAIN All workers, whether they are employed in the private or public sector, should avoid living 'pay...
MARK SKOUSEN Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset ...
MARK GATISS I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me f...
MARK RUFFALO There is no better way to quickly buoy hard-pressed homeowners than helping them take advantage of t...
MARK ZANDI I'm nutty bunny number two. I love me and I love you.
MARK MCKINNEY Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the ...
MARK ZANDI James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire t...
MARK WAHLBERG There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the ...
MARK GODDARD I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Los...
MARK GODDARD I vaguely remember in the '90s when Calvin Klein started making unisex CK1. Don't worry abou...
MARK RONSON Well, right now we're so busy that I kind of had to put all the hobbies on hold. But I like goin...
MARK KELLY I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have t...
MARK FROST We have pension funds with 1.5 trillion euros investments, and they want to find business opportunit...
MARK RUTTE We need not to just kill the boat-smuggling business model: we also need to get rid of this asylum-s...
MARK RUTTE We are a mission-driven company. In order to do this, we have to build a great team. And in order to...
MARK ZUCKERBERG Potential home buyers have a two-step decision process. First, they determine whether they can affor...
MARK ZANDI The best person to get something done is a busy person.
MARK BURNETT The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it's not clear that it's good...
MARK STEYN I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the pres...
MARK MCKINNON Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we shoul...
MARK MCKINNON Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, t...
MARK HOPPUS The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,...
MARK ZANDI In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not tryi...
MARK WAHLBERG When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting th...
MARK WATERS Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
MARK TWAIN It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal...
MARK TWAIN Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired
MARK TWAIN It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.
MARK TWAIN Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
MARK TWAIN Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting...
MARK TWAIN To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
MARK TWAIN Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
MARK TWAIN The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itse...
MARK TWAIN Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would ...
MARK TWAIN If you're a big celebrity, you get money to be private. I'm just a working stiff. I don'...
MARK FUHRMAN There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.
MARK TWAIN The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things tha...
MARK TWAIN Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled
MARK TWAIN Necessity is the mother of "taking chances"
MARK TWAIN I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was rea...
MARK RUFFALO Distance lends enchantment to the view
MARK TWAIN Be good and you will be lonesome.
MARK TWAIN Chastity - you can carry it too far
MARK TWAIN The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline ...
MARK RUSSELL To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.
MARK TWAIN Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in it...
MARK TWAIN Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
MARK TWAIN Here's one of my bad habits: when I go to someone's house, I head straight to their bookshel...
MARK FRAUENFELDER Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk...
MARK BILLINGHAM China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main ...
MARK CARWARDINE When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.
MARK TWAIN There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many...
MARK TWAIN Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.
MARK TWAIN Americans are notoriously ill-equipped for self-reflection. We're usually a very boisterous, out...
MARK FROST I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and lookin...
MARK TWAIN The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half ...
MARK EDWARDS A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
MARK RUTHERFORD Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would...
MARK TWAIN Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relati...
MARK TWAIN Wit and Humor -- if any difference, it is in duration -- lightning and electric light. Same material...
MARK TWAIN Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no...
MARK TWAIN There is a great deal of human nature in people.
MARK TWAIN If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
MARK TWAIN There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
MARK TWAIN The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monot...
MARK TWAIN Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
MARK TWAIN Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat...
MARK TWAIN It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts th...
MARK TWAIN Lenders look at potential borrowers from many angles before extending credit: How much of its income...
MARK ZANDI Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the fe...
MARK KENNEDY There really isn't anything more refreshing then iced Coke out of the old-school glass bottles.
MARK ZUPAN Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew f...
MARK LAWRENCE Of all the various kinds of sexual intercourse, this has the least to recommend it. As an amusement,...
MARK TWAIN Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of t...
MARK TWAIN I brag on the Democratic Party. We're libertarian on social issues, it's live and let live. ...
MARK UDALL I am quite amazed how, when people earn lots of money, they think they have to spend it on things th...
MARK HADDON Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
MARK TWAIN Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
MARK TWAIN We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.
MARK TWAIN As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.
MARK RUTTE He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magi...
MARK RYDELL I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it an...
MARK MCGWIRE O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover th...
MARK TWAIN A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
MARK TWAIN Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so,...
MARK TWAIN There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to...
MARK TWAIN All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will...
MARK MCCORMACK I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treas...
MARK TWAIN We’ll have to get you a sword,” I said. “When funds allow.”
Snorri shook his head. “A...
MARK LAWRENCE Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich...
MARK TWAIN Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide i...
MARK TWAIN Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us...
MARK TWAIN Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
MARK TWAIN Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
MARK TWAIN I do not like work even when someone else does it.
MARK TWAIN Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not oblig...
MARK TWAIN Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
MARK TWAIN Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
MARK TWAIN No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
MARK TWAIN We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether th...
MARK TWAIN Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True ...
MARK TWAIN